States opt-out Medicaid, leave 'larger impact than expected'

Name: States opt-out Medicaid, leave 'larger impact than expected'
Uploaded: 2013-10-08T01:07:19Z
Duration: P756S
Description: As the effects of the shutdown take hold, longer-term fights over safety net programs continue. Jeffrey Brown talks to Jacob Hacker of Yale University and Stephen Parenti of the University of Minnesota about how states opting out of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion has stranded some uninsured Americans.

Clip: 10/07/2013 | 12m 36s

As the effects of the shutdown take hold, longer-term fights over safety net programs continue. Jeffrey Brown talks to Jacob Hacker of Yale University and Stephen Parenti of the University of Minnesota about how states opting out of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion has stranded some uninsured Americans.

Aired: 10/07/13

Rating: NR

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States opt-out Medicaid, leave 'larger impact than expected'

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